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Nearly a year ago, Boston sports radio talk show host Glenn Ordway and his wife, Sarah, sat in the NICU waiting room uncertain about the future of their newborn daughter, Mia. She was born with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), an injury caused by a lack of oxygen or blood to the brain.
Last week, with a playful, one-year-old Mia in their arms, the Ordways returned to the NICU to thank Robert Insoft, MD, director for the NICU, and his team for saving their daughter’s life and to announce the formation of the Miracle Mia Foundation, which aims to donate a cooling unit—the same technology that helped save their daughter’s life—to every hospital in New England.
“We’re hopeful that this device will give BWH the opportunity to save more lives in the way you saved Mia’s life,” said Glenn Ordway during a ceremony in the NICU Solarium.
At the time of birth, Mia faced possible long-term brain injury or death, but Insoft suggested that the Ordways try this new treatment, in which the cooling blanket lowers an infant’s body temperature for three days. BWH did not have a cooling blanket, so Mia went to Children’s Hospital, the only hospital in the region at the time with this technology.
In thanking the Ordways for donating the blanket to BWH, Insoft said, “Here in the NICU, we pride ourselves on being able to offer the most cutting edge, sophisticated and compassionate care to our patients and their families. This generous gift helps us to continue that rich tradition of clinical excellence.”
The Miracle Mia Foundation also will support a multidisciplinary lectureship at BWH that will continue to advance the safest patient and family-oriented care in obstetrics, pediatrics, nursing and anesthesiology.
Donations to the Miracle Mia Foundation can be sent to: Wayne, Richard & Hurwitz LLP c/o Neil A. Mooney, Esq., One Boston Place, Suite 3620, Boston, MA 02108. For more information, e-mail Sarah Ordway at sbancroftordway@yahoo.com.